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2024-06-07 03:41:39 UTC - HELPFUL
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Israel was created in 1948 pursuant to the UN Partition Plan & the post-WW1 British & French division of former-Ottoman Empire territories. It was built on British Mandate territory and lands with historical Jewish ties purchased by Jews under Ottoman rule. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7380642.stm#:~:text=several%20former%20Ottoman%20territories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine#:~:text=began%20purchasing%20land%20and%20properties%20across%20Ottoman https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1997/05/selling-land-to-jews.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181 https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/cmenas-assets/cmenas-documents/unit-of-israel-palestine/Section1_UnitedNationsPartitionPlan.pdf https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-beneath-the-temple-mount-920764/#:~:text=on%20the%20ruins%20of%20the%20Jewish%20temples https://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/resources/french%20mandate%20for%20syria%20and%20the%20lebanon.pdf https://archives.ungeneva.org/mandate-for-mesopotamia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_David_(archaeological_site)
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